A Truer Liberty (Routledge Revivals)
A Truer Liberty (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Laurence A. Blum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1135232423

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Simone Weil — philosopher, trade union militant, factory worker — developed a penetrating critique of Marxism and a powerful political philosophy which serves an alternative both to liberalism and to Marxism. In A Truer Liberty, originally published in 1989, Blum and Seidler show how Simone Weil’s philosophy sought to place political action on a firmly moral basis. The dignity of the manual worker became the standard for political institutions and movements. Weil criticized Marxism for its confidence in progress and revolution and its attendant illusory belief that history is on the side of the proletariat. Blum and Seidler relate Weil’s work to influential trends in political philosophy today, from analytic Marxism to central traditions within liberal thought. The authors stress the importance of Weil’s work for understanding liberation theology, Catholic radicalism, and, more generally, social movements against oppression which are closely tied to religion and spirituality.

Oppression and Liberty
Oppression and Liberty

Author: Simone Weil

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780415255608

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Discussing political and social oppression, its permanent causes, the way it works and its contemporary form, this volume of Simone Weil's writings offers thought-provoking ideas on political theory.

Give Me Liberty
Give Me Liberty

Author: Richard Brookhiser

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1541699122

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An award-winning historian recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of thirteen essential documents Nationalism is inevitable: It supplies feelings of belonging, identity, and recognition. It binds us to our neighbors and tells us who we are. But increasingly -- from the United States to India, from Russia to Burma -- nationalism is being invoked for unworthy ends: to disdain minorities or to support despots. As a result, nationalism has become to many a dirty word. In Give Me Liberty, award-winning historian and biographer Richard Brookhiser offers up a truer and more inspiring story of American nationalism as it has evolved over four hundred years. He examines America's history through thirteen documents that made the United States a new country in a new world: a free country. We are what we are because of them; we stay true to what we are by staying true to them. Americans have always sought liberty, asked for it, fought for it; every victory has been the fulfillment of old hopes and promises. This is our nationalism, and we should be proud of it.

The Future of Academic Freedom
The Future of Academic Freedom

Author: Louis Menand

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1996-12-15

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780226520049

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But academic freedom is almost never mentioned in these debates. Now nine leading academics consider the problems confronting the American university in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom. Whom and what does academic freedom protect? Are restrictions on hate speech compatible with the academic freedom of inquiry? Must academic freedom have epistemological foundations, or should it be reconceived as an ethical practice?

Let Freedom Ring…Again
Let Freedom Ring…Again

Author: George C. Landrith III

Publisher: Post Hill Press

Published: 2024-05-07

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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The United States of America is in peril. The fundamental freedoms and values that were once synonymous with America are being dismantled at an alarming rate. Those who are engaged in this destruction of America base their movement on feelings, not facts or reason. If they are successful in overthrowing American’s principles and foundations, Americans of all races and creeds will suffer as their freedoms are usurped and their opportunities stolen in the name of progressive government power. Average, regular, everyday Americans will see their hope for freedom, opportunity, and a better future wither and die. Only the political elites and their friends will benefit. As history will show, those who seek total, unquestioned power never seek that power for the benefit of their fellow men and women. It is always used to aggrandize themselves alone.

Liberty's Poet
Liberty's Poet

Author: H. S. Moore

Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 0975480340

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A young, upper-class Jewish girl--who aspires to be a poet in 19th century New York City and is befriended byRalph Waldo Emerson--emerges as a warrior against bigotry and oppression when the plight of desperate immigrants motivates her to take action.

Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty
Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty

Author: Sergei Prozorov

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1317133749

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Against the prevailing interpretations which disqualify a Foucauldian approach from the discourse of freedom, this study offers a novel concept of political freedom and posits freedom as the primary axiological motif of Foucault's writing. Based on a new interpretation of the relation of Foucault's approach to the problematic of sovereignty, Sergei Prozorov both reconstructs ontology of freedom in Foucault's textual corpus and outlines the modalities of its practice in the contemporary terrain of global governance. The book critically engages with the acclaimed post-Foucauldian theories of Giorgio Agamben and Antonio Negri, thereby restoring the controversial notion of the sovereign subject to the critical discourse on global politics. As a study in political thought, this book will be suitable for students and scholars interested in the problematic of political freedom, philosophy and global governance.

A Philosophical Anthropology Drawn from Simone Weil's Life and Writings
A Philosophical Anthropology Drawn from Simone Weil's Life and Writings

Author: Helen E. Cullen

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 1525501798

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A Philosophical Anthropology Drawn from Simone Weil’s Life & Writings situates Weil’s thought in the time between the two world wars through which she lived, and traces Weil’s consistent conception of a mind-body dualism in the Cartesian sense to a dualism that places the mind within a carnal part of the soul and establishes an eternal part of the soul as the essence of human beings. Helen Cullen argues that in Weil’s early conception of human nature, her Cartesian conception of perception already shows a glimpse of the eternal. Weil’s dualistic conception also forms the basis of her political analysis of the left of her time, and through working in factories and in the fields, she develops a conception of labour as a theory of “action” and “work with a method.” Weil was influenced by leading thinkers of her time, prompting her to do an analysis of current scientific theories. Cullen argues that Weil’s analysis of Christianity, already present in Greek philosophy, shows us a theory of “identical thought” inherited from the East (India and China) and brought forth by peoples around Israel. This theory leads to Weil’s analysis, developed in The Need for Roots, of how we’ve been uprooted through colonization and how we can grow roots in a free local society (both rural and urban).